Arizona weekly citizen., 1887-10-15

Bat when the 6rst 200 yards bGs been
 covered the chase Is pretty sure. Is
 doesn't matter then If ElHLy persons
 have crossed the pst5 of the prisoner.
 the dogs follow the scent gi;hOut Any | q uot. As they run their bllcl vGrns
 up and they grow suFer" Mir. Simmons was ssSCl aLll- the | vsrious devices adopted io tLrav the | dogs oH the scents. Dogs 1s pure
 breed and good framing" ie ra9lied.
 "it is almost impossible Co s.-l- cf. Dragging a brush behiui vlll ... !o It. have trailed men ;hroCsh .rrnlng water, and even on horseb.cs tls. cf the very few cases l have knoa- 70 get ting away was where the pris a - .l1apsd
 iEto 6 wagon. That threw The -.-s of.
 We have trsiied prisoner thro-El :as
 streets of Birmingham That. oi e lrse,
 is hard. Hundreds of people may asys
 trsmped over the ground after -le con-
 vict has passed. On the diri roads of
 the country the trail Is easily i..l Eed.
 and ID the woods U Is Inpors.1.- Ca get
 away. We ran a negro tnrCU-a big swamp one time. He got Cu a D u r and rode nine miles, then Rot of snI .su, but
 the dogs followed the trsll U- lodt s
 break
 The scent which the dogs fo,IaF must be Tn the feet" Mir. SlmmOn- sfIi ,G re- ply to another GnestIon- ~A.r has negro l have Iu-t spoken Oi ci Ci the mule the dogs kept hIs tran by mpius up and smelling the bl-hes VI. his feet toutched as he rode along. Ct-nR- ing bis shoes doesn't help s man any. The dogs are not thrown off b, that trick. The bigger ears they have the IhaN k.. have run awhile they get hHt and mad. If they overtake s convict then th.y wlu do him harm"
 Hanging up in the st ckade yard iss queer-looking object. Al & hLti- d. tsace 1t looks like bundle os life preservrrs It IS s heavily padded suit of ciuthr.. Once a week, or probably lltt's ufteuer, 6 convict is dressed in the padt-G sut and told to 90, He Is given 2 two-.gurs start usually. The dogs are led ont and shown the trail. Away they go. twelve or fifteen in the pack, the older GuuDds in front and the pups behird. every one of them yelpinR. This IS dead earnest work for the dogs. but. os course. 8 game of hare and hounds tr the trusty in the padded suit, and l. .srce 10 the officers who ride tp the p0..l pre- Viously agreed upon for the chG-e co end. Practice has reduced the chance for es- ,spe from the dogs to considerably less than one in ten, and the know dr- of his on the part of the convicts renders aem little inclined to make the e'fprt The dogs at Pratt mines are moro feared lhsn the guards are"
 How fast will the dogs get over the ground on the trsil:" Mr. Simmons was ssked.
 The other day" be replied we started , convict ont and appointed place soout six miles distant where he ws- to ske Co a tree vhenthe dogs were uu.1m- ortsbly near. The negro travelled for rvO ,ours doubling and trying various tricks Q confuse the dogs. Then We put the logs on the trail snd rode direct Co The place where the chase was e. cpd. We vent about as fast as We wanted i1 rlde. When we got to the tree which tha gro lsd climbed the dogs were there having Ione over all the ground bs had covered D two hours. They must have run ], at ess than four minutes to the mile When Te start out in earnest to trail a coc.ict | takes hard riding to keep Bny where aear the dogs.